Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-05-05
NEW YORK FASHIONS.
The LATEST Materials for spring Toilet
seasonnbie millinery Notes.

The LATEST Materials for spring Toilets
seasonhble Millinery Notes.
The fresh importation of French
white toilets, embroidered and lace
trimmed, are marvels of Partisan skill,
art and matchless delicacy.
New surahs, with diagonal twill, are
shown in rich solid colors and in many
fancy plaids and stripes. These are to
be made up as entire gowns and not in
combination with vest, Stuart collar
and cuffs of velvet The skirts are
laid in extra wide kits, with folds of
the velvet inserted at regular inter-
vals.
Very rich-looking vests, yokeS, col
lar and cuffs are imported in silk gimp
effects, in mot or heavy raised devices
in arabesque patterns, and also in fine
scroll and palm devices. These de-
tachable decorations are certain to find
a large sale in spite of their rather
high price, because they are so trans
forming in their effect at the cost of a
very little work. The simplest and
soberest costumes are at once rendered
extremely dressy and stylish looking
by the adjustment of these picturesque
and novel accessories.
Materials for spring and summer
millinery are unusually rich and varied.
There are black and tinted silk nets,
beaded in jet, pearl, heliotrope vel.
low, pale blue and pale pink beads in
fine new patterns embroidered vel.
vets in very elegant designs, Oriental
embroidered nets in great variety,
Neapoltan grapes in exquisite summer
tints, embroidered crepe de chine, plain
and embroidered grenadines, and the
endless variety of silk tissues, laces,
surahs, etamines and fancy silk scrims.
The Scotch zephyr ginghams and
chambreys brought out this season are
worthy of special mention. The tufted
striped ginghams have the design
woven to closely resemble the silk anc
wool stripes of last season, and are
shown in novel and really beautiful
combinations of color The solid col
ored chambreys and ginghams ART
dyed in lovely shades of pink, lilat
blue, corn color, etc., and the embroid
cred patterns come in various widths
of houncings. These robe suits are pu
up in boxes, and are among the daint-
lest of the seasons exhibit of novelties
in cotton fabrics, and they will bt
specially favored for morning cos
tunes by those who prefer neat ant
dressy washable fabrics for home utili
ty wear.
The new straw bonnets are exqui
sitely fine and shapely. They ar
brought out in all the prevailing sprin.
and summer tints, noticeably, man,
shades of golden brown, beig
and ecru, gray, and the natural straw
and wood colors. More novel color
are those of English rose, Charles X
pink, Japanese red, pale heliotrope, o
"wistaria," chamois and peachblow
The same tints appear in the straw ant
braid hats as in bonnets. Fancy hea,
coverings show odd effects produce,
by combining materials, thus beade,
velvet is made into a canvass patterl
by diamond mixture of colored stray
or looped in shingle style one above tn
other. There are numberless odd con
ceits in straw gimps, willow and rus
bonnets, and in silk scrim and fin
straw mating, which are created fo
the erratic young creatures who sig
for novelty and aim at oddity Trim
mings will still be massed upon the to
of the bonnet in front. The quantit
of these garnitures will be limited onl
by the extent of space allowed by tn
size of bonnet and the length of purs
of its buyer.-M Y. Post.